Recording to Lifesize Cloud Amplify when not in a call

Would recording to Lifesize Cloud Amplify when not in a call be useful? When using an endpoint (220 or Icon) and video center, you can start recording and it will record video/microphone and content while not in a call. I can see this being useful when there is a presentation/meeting locally and the need to record the session arises.

Thanks Marek. I tried this work around and it works except for Amplify does not record both camera and content/presentation as a dual stream similar to the video center. Do you know if this is something is being worked on and perhaps coming down the pipe at some point?

The dual stream difference from video center is actually a function of the player in the browser. With recording and streaming in Cloud we moved to HTML 5. This has many advantages over Flash (used in video center.) HTML5 is natively part of nearly all PC/Mac/iOS/Android browsers and works without any software installation required by the user. It is under active development and will continue to improve in all browsers, whereas Flash is seeing reduced support in browsers. The downside of HTML 5 is that it is not as mature in capabilities. One of these is it does not yet enable us to show video and content as dual streams from which each user can individually choose the layout. That is something we want to add in the future when the underlying HTML5 capability is there.

Agreed Patrick. It would be a nice feature to have a recording button that would allow recording both the webcam video and the content/presentation. I think because you would be already signed in under your cloud account it wouldn't need to prompt for a recording key similar to how the video center worked with endpoints where recording was enabled but the recording key field was empty on the endpoint. Unless Lifesize is working on adding video center features to amplify, i.e., having different recording keys, channels, etc.

Contributing to this stale post here as i think it got sidetracked by the HTML/Flash discussion. Im surprised the feature request hasnt been added yet but there really needs to be a way of recording without having to be in a call. When someone wants to record small video segements as course material, its a little silly that they have to create a meeting room and then call into it to start recording. It would be nice if record was an option without having to dial into a VMR.